Less than half of doctors in nation’s largest cities are accepting Medicaid now: study

The Daily Caller reports:

Obamacare supporters have boasted about an uptick in Medicaid enrollments, but does the program offer much more than an insurance card?

Health-care consulting firm Merritt Hawkins conducted a survey of Medicaid acceptance rates which found that just 45.7 percent of physicians are now accepting Medicaid patients in the U.S.’s largest 15 cities. The federal welfare program cuts costs by reimbursing physicians at extremely low rates, preventing many doctors from seeing patients with Medicaid coverage.

The report considered care in 15 cities and across five specialties, and also cataloged wait times to access physicians given any insurance plan across the spectrum using 2013 data, pre-Obamacare reforms. This year will see a surge of Medicaid patients with fewer available doctors.

Socialism has always meant waiting in line.